AH2 Final Review

Issuing the Truman Doctrine, defending South Korea, and sending military advisors to Vietnam were actions taken by the United States to

• gain additional overseas colonies.

• encourage membership in the United Nations.

• promote American business in Asia.

• limit the spread of communism.

Which best describes the Cold War?

• This period of time following World War II is where the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and faced off in an arms race that lasted nearly 50 years.

• Any struggle between the opposing forces of good and evil.

• A lessening of tensions between U.S. and Soviet Union begun to insure a lasting peace between superpowers.

• A legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply.

The position taken by Truman which became known as the Truman Doctrine was a

• proposal for peaceful use of atomic energy.

• policy for extending economic and military aid to those countries threatened by communism.

• policy of aiding peace-loving peoples of underdeveloped nations.

• policy to provide technical assistance to countries ravaged by WWII.

What ultimately happened to the “Hollywood Ten” who refused to answer questions put to them by the House Un-American Activities Committee?

• they spent time in jail and were blacklisted

• they were fined by the courts

• they were forced into exile.

• they became double agents against the communists

When the Soviet Union denied the United States, Britain and France access to West Berlin in 1948, President Truman responded by

• asked the United Nations to intervene.

• denying the Soviets access to West Germany.

• calling up reserves in anticipation of war.

• organizing an airlift of supplies to West Berlin.

What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?

• to start a Cold War

• to punish Germany for building the Berlin Wall

• to fund the rebuilding of Europe

• to increase support for South Korea

What country put the first human-made space satellite into orbit around Earth?

• the United States

• Great Britain

• the Soviet Union

• France

Which individual/group contributed to the Red Scare by accusing American citizens of being communist spies?

• McCarthy/HUAC

• NAACP/Farm Workers Union

• Nativists/Muckrakers

• Philanthropists/Entrepreneurs

What happened as a result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957?

• It started the space race between the USSR and U.S.

• The U.S. government started NASA.

• U.S. began to spend more money on math and science to maintain national security.

• All of the above

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what did President J.F. Kennedy do when he heard that the Soviet Union was constructing nuclear missile sites in Cuba.

• He launched a nuclear missile at the Kremlin in Moscow.

• He gave into the demands of the Soviet & Cuban government.

• He ordered a naval blockade around Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from bringing the necessary materials.

• He declared war on the Soviet Union & Cuba.